As It Is: Direct Experience as a Field of Blessings (Class), CC 5/19 - 6/16

with Shosan Victoria Austin and Shinki Mark LancasterCity Center

Four Mondays: May 19 and June 2, 9 and 16, 2014 7:30 - 9 pm

Suzuki Roshi often taught "things as it is, things as they are" as a worldview to relieve suffering. How can we learn to live in response to our direct experience of ourselves and the world, rather than in habitual reaction to preconditioned, fixed views?

In this four-week class, we will explore Buddha's magnificent teaching of the Four Divine Abidings as gates to a truly human life characterized by acceptance, gratitude and freedom. A variety of modes of self-study will be used, including physical practices, speech study, and journaling. Class members have the opportunity to deepen their study and practice in the half-day sitting on Saturday afternoon, May 31. (Please register separately for the half-day sitting.)